Brad Stevens

College coach infobox


Name = Brad Stevens
Sport = Basketball
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College = Butler
Title = Head coach
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Years = 1995–1999
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CoachYears = 2001–2007
2007–present
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Brad Stevens is the head men's basketball coach at Butler University.

Stevens has been on the Butler coaching staff since the 2000-2001 season.cite web|url=http://butlersports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040407aab.html|title=Brad Stevens Named Butler's Men's Basketball Coach|accessdate=2008-02-28] He started as a volunteer assistant before earning an administrative job under then-coach Thad Matta. Matta left the school after the 2000-2001 season. New coach Todd Lickliter promoted Stevens to a full-time assistant coach the following season. Stevens held a variety of coaching roles under Lickliter. He was promoted to the head coaching job in 2007 when Lickliter left for the University of Iowa.

Prior to joining the Butler staff, Stevens worked in marketing for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis and held a volunteer coaching assistant job at Carmel High School. He is a 1999 graduate of Depauw University, where he played basketball for four years and earned all-conference and academic all conference awards.cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=19232|title=Brad Stevens '99 Named Men's Basketball Coach at Butler University|accessdate=2008-02-28] He was a team captain his senior year.

Stevens grew up in the Indianapolis suburb of Zionsville, where he was a star basketball player for Zionsville Community High School.cite web|url=http://butlersports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040407aab.html|title=Brad Stevens Named Butler's Men's Basketball Coach|accessdate=2008-02-28] Stevens set records for career scoring, assists, steals and three point field goals. Three of those records still stand, including his scoring record. [Team Records, [http://www.zcs.k12.in.us/~zchsathletics/Winter/BoysBB/team-records-05.doc Zionsville Basketball] , Retrieved on 2 April, 2008 (.doc)]

In 2007-08 he became the 3rd-youngest head coach in NCAA Division I history to lead a team to 30 wins in a season.

Head coaching record

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startyear=2007
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championship = conference tournament
season = 2007–2008
name = Butler
overall = 30-4
conference = 16-2
confstanding = 1st
postseason = NCAA 2nd RoundCBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Butler
overall = 30-4
confrecord = 16-2CBB Yearly Record End
overall=30-4

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